Growflex is a machine to machine-machine network solution that includes battery -or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field.
It grows on its own so energy costs are one 10th of the costs to create foam.
so it requires much more energy and creates more waste. We re using waste materials and using the entire organism.
It s a New york state Energy Research and development Authority-funded program. We re also doing building materials as well--replacing foam insulation.
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#Germany and Canada Are Building Water Splitters to Store Energy Germany which has come to rely heavily on wind
and solar power in recent years is launching more than 20 demonstration projects that involve storing energy by splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen.
whether electrolysis as the technology is known could address one of the biggest looming challenges for renewable energy its intermittency.
The electrolyzer projects under construction in Germany typically consist of a few buildings each the size of a shipping container that consume excess renewable energy on sunny and windy days by turning it into an electric current that powers the water-splitting reaction.
and distribution infrastructure already used for natural gas and eventually turned back into electricity via combustion or fuel cells.
Electrolysis has advantages over some other energy storage options. It can be deployed almost anywhere it can store vast amounts of energy
and the hydrogen can be used to replace fossil fuels not only in electricity production but also in industry and transportation
which account for far more carbon emissions. Even so it has long been considered a relatively lousy way to store energy because of its low efficiency about 65 percent of the energy in the original electricity is lost.
But improvements to the technology are reducing costs and the large-scale use of renewable energy is creating new needs for storage making electrolysis a practical option in a growing number of places.
Earlier this year Siemens broke ground in Mainz Germany on what it says will be the world s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer.
When it opens next year it will have the capacity to produce 650000 kilograms of hydrogen a year the energy equivalent of 650000 gallons of gasoline.
because excess wind and solar power creates a glut of power on the grid. Because power needs to be used as soon as it s generated to keep the grid stable prices are dropped sometimes to zero
so buyers can be found. Cheap electricity makes electrolysis far more competitive. Electrolysis remains more expensive than producing hydrogen from natural gas at least in the United states where natural gas is cheap.
But it can compete with storage options such as batteries says Kevin Harrison a senior engineer at the National Renewable energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado.
It s also more versatile than the cheapest way to store energy: pumping water up a hill
and then letting it back down to drive a turbine. That approach is limited severely by geography
but he says you can put an electrolyzer almost anywhere e
#How LEDS Are Set to Revolutionize Hi-tech Greenhouse Farming It won't come as a surprise to discover that consumers all over the developed world are increasingly demanding seasonal vegetables all year round even
So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.
And of course LEDS use considerably less electricity wasting little as heat. But the most interesting part of Singh and co s analysis is in the potential of LEDS to change the way that vegetables are grown.
and well into the infrared where much energy is lost as heat. By contrast LEDS can be adjusted to emit light in very specific parts of the spectrum.
and that light frequency also influences the biomass of certain plants as well as their nutritional content.
and co. Exactly how light of various frequencies influences plant growth biomass and nutritional content is understood not well.
which represent a major milestone for designing materials with customized functions and structures for applications in medicine, optics, and energy.
or control the flow of energy. The researchers designed the nanoparticle architectures by means of an octahedral scaffold,
We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications,
and the third-leading cause of death from food poisoning in the U s."It can grow under refrigeration,
fruits and soft cheeses that are stored under refrigeration.""Currently, the only means of detecting listeria bacteria contamination of food requires highly trained technicians
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
#New MIT Power Converter Chip Harvests More than 80%of Energy Realizing that vision, however, will require extremely low-power sensors that can run for months without battery changes or, even better,
that can extract energy from the environment to recharge. Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it,
even at the extremely low power levels characteristic of tiny solar cells. Previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 percent.
Moreover the researcherschip achieves those efficiency improvements while assuming additional responsibilities. Where most of its ultralow-power predecessors could use a solar cell to either charge a battery
or directly power a device, this new chip can do both, and it can power the device directly from the battery.
All of those operations also share a single inductor the chip main electrical component which saves on circuit board space
but increases the circuit complexity even further. Nonetheless, the chip power consumption remains low. e still want to have battery-charging capability,
and we still want to provide a regulated output voltage, says Dina Reda El-Damak, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
Ups and downsthe circuit chief function is to regulate the voltages between the solar cell the battery,
and the device the cell is powering. If the battery operates for too long at a voltage that either too high or too low, for instance, its chemical reactants break down,
and it loses the ability to hold a charge. To control the current flow across their chip, El-Damak and her advisor, Anantha Chandrakasan,
since the rate at which it dissipates energy as heat is proportional to the square of the current.
and falls depends on the voltage generated by the solar cell, which is highly variable. So the timing of the switch throws has to vary, too.
whose selection is determined by the solar cell voltage. Once again, when the capacitor fills, the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space,
because there a fixed amount of energy that consumed by doing the work, says Brett Miwa,
The team presented its latest findings to the U s. Department of energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D c. in February this year.
drop in biofuel on its Falcon 20 jet, according to oilprice. com, marking a huge milestone for the aviation and renewable energy industries.
Industrial biotechnology continues to enable solutions to energy challenges and building a biobased economy is key to reducing dependence on foreign oil enhancing our nation economic and energy security.
Last week, the U s. Navy signed an agreement with biotech company Biodico to collaborate on developing advanced biofuels and bioenergy refineries throughout the globe for the U s. military.
California that will produce biofuels and bioenergy at prices competitive with unsubsidized conventional fuel and power.
The California Energy Commission will partially fund the construction through grants. ur objective is to privately fund sustainable biorefineries at Dod facilities around the world at no cost to the U s. taxpayer,
Progress in biofuel-powered flights and the Navy continued pursuit of alternative energy are great steps to help the United states build a biobased economy
Polymers are poor conductors of electricity and 3d printing is based primarily around a set range of plastics.
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The recent launch of the Calgren Ethanol Plant in the Tulare County town of Pixley is a step in helping California meet its clean energy goals while addressing the San joaquin valley terrible air pollution.
Built with the help of a $4. 6 million grant from the California Energy Commission, the plant, according to the coalition of companies that built the facility,
nixing any need to be connected to the local grid. The process starts with a nearby dairy, Four J Farms.
but local officials noticed it was more important step in pushing California closer to its 2020 clean energy goals. lectricity (to power cars)
and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power plant emissions has been developed by a multi-institution team of researchers.
That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Researchers at LLNL and the U s. Department of energy's National Energy technology Lab are now working on enhancements to the capture process to bring the technology to scale.
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
has found a way to harness electricity from living plants, using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers,
which living plants generate electricity. Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
Part of this organic matter is used for plant-growth, but a large part can be used by the plant
Around the roots naturally occurring microorganisms break down the organic compounds to gain energy from. In this process, electrons are released as a waste product.
the electrons can be harvested as electricity. Research has shown that plant-growth isn compromised by harvesting electricity,
so plants keep on growing while electricity is produced concurrently. Just imagine, a house with a roof full of plant/tree life powering your home.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
the main problem is the quantity of energy that can be generated. There is still a long way to go with regards to making enough energy to have a completely reliable commercial product,
but things are looking promising, as the company is already selling products that enable you to harvest energy from plants.
Again, they are also using the technology to power their headquarters For more information on the technology
More and more energy innovations seem to be emerging every single day, like this one. Perhaps this is why the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family recently sold out of fossil fuels
and switched their investments towards clean energy? Change is coming, and it about time. The world largest private bank, UBS, is also urging investors to join the clean, renewable energy movement.
They did so with a statement expressing that power plants in Europe might be completely extinct within the next 10 to 20 year (you can read more about that story here.
It something that needs to happen, and it needs to happen now. Wee seen the solutions, now it time to implement them.
It become clear that there are many alternative ways to generate energy without destroying the planet d
#The turbines WITHOUT blades: Firm unveils radical design that claims to be quieter and safer than traditional wind farms By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail. com Published:
00:12 GMT, 19 may 2015 Updated: 00:15 GMT, 19 may 2015 Today wind turbines have colossal blades that spin at speeds of more than 200mph (320 km h).
) While some might consider them majestic structures, others argue they are a threat to bird life and a noisy blight on the landscape.
a bladeless wind turbine that can generate more electricity for less. Scroll down for videocreated by Madrid-based Vortex Bladeless,
The movements is transformed into electricity using an alternator that increases the frequency of the mast movement.
Without the need for blades, the design could reduce manufacturing costs by 53 per cent compared to conventional multi-blade wind turbines, according to the company.
can capture nearly half of the wind power in normal conditions. This is 30 per cent less than normal wind turbines. ver the last four years,
we developed a technology, from an idea to a proof of concept in the wind tunnel,
and from the wind tunnel tests to multiple wind field tests, Suriol told Renewable energy Magazine. urrently we have a Vortex with all the technical milestones developed:
Vortex Bladeless say they now want to create a commercial, 100-watt turbine to market in 2018. b
and converts it to electrical energy reportedly enough to power a small electronic device, like a wearable.
Electricity The power generates thanks to the triboelectric effect which is when certain types of materials can become electrically charged through contact and friction with another material in this case,
Thanks to the triboelectric effect creating the device is easier as well the skin is one of the triboelectric layers that helps produce the effect,
so that layer doesn need to be built into the device itself, saving time, money, and materials. It also removes something that can go wrong with the device having one less layer built in means that one less part that can Break in the researcherstest,
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
Who knows one day this type of generator could even generate enough energy to power your smartphone,
perhaps even removing the battery entirely, which is one of the biggest constraints to smartphone development and design o
spun an idea with French physicists who decided to make the ground its own elastic buckling device and drill holes that proved earthquake-resistant and absorbed impact energy.
Despite reducing the calorie content, Douxmatok's food technologists found a way to retain the same energy content-an important factor for consumers. obody ever says really tired I need some aspartame for energy!
so we kept that as well, aid the CEO. But while taste is essential for consumers,
it also ensures energy economies, since thanks to the lesser volume needing to be evacuated smaller vacuum pumps can be installed.
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#RNA insecticide could leave oodbugs alone An insecticide currently in development targets a specific gene
At this point, the reactor exposes the air to electrical discharges separating nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) from the atmospheric air and transforming it into nitrous oxide (N2o),
and the periodic floods, the locals have had to resort to energy-inefficient terrace farming. This is not an isolated problem:
and requires very little energy. The Nemo's Garden project started in 2012 and continued through the next two summers.
Net Electricity Load in Calif. Is 5 Years Ahead of Schedule On January 11, 2015, a rather unremarkable Sunday earlier this month,
That means that CAISO is operating the grid, this month, at net load (that is the system demand less solar and wind generation) more than five years ahead of forecast.
California needs more energy storage to match the duck curve Experiencing this net load years ahead of the CAISO forecast has placed not the California grid in crisis. The state's grid has sufficient flexibility today to accommodate the rapid rise of solar power,
which is the primary driver of change in CAISO grid operations. However, with the January 2015 milestone landing well beyond the 2020 forecast,
the utilities and CPUC should accelerate procurement of energy storage to match the accelerating duck curve.
With the energy storage procurement cycle in progress, let open the long-duration energy storage market in 2015.
Long-duration energy storage offers both the benefits of grid flexibility similar to flexible gas plants, and the reuse of zero-marginal-cost midday solar during the evening energy ramp.
Long-duration energy storage unique functionality uncaps the limits to growth of solar in California--and beyond.
Less than a week before the January 11 daily-duck-curve milestone, Governor Jerry brown used his 2015 inauguration speech to call for a 50 percent renewable energy future in California.
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
limiting rate shocks into the future. California energy agencies are already collaborating to accelerate penetration of energy storage.
Several promising long-duration energy storage technologies are now in early commercial operation homegrown in California with support from the California Energy Commission and the U s. Department of energy.
The CPUC can pull out the playbook that bestowed California with an abundance of solar energy and use it again with energy storage.
Waiting to see which technologies become bankable in 2018 for 2020 delivery is unwise and unnecessary.
we need to use the current CPUC-sponsored energy storage procurement process to bring bankable, long-duration energy storage technologies to market so that they can deliver at scale in 2018--not sometime in the next decade.
Scale drives cost reduction for storage We are already witnessing the impact of manufacturing scale on cost for lithium-ion batteries being bid into the electricity market.
A variety of emerging long-duration energy storage technologies will also experience the rapid cost reduction that inevitably follows commercial scale.
Pay attention to what happened with solar--many of those folks are now working in energy storage. In both my consulting practice and in my pro-bono work with Calcharge
I have had the opportunity to see inside the proto-factories of a range of emerging long-duration energy storage technologies,
all of which have demonstrated major engineering progress. What they need next is a commercial contract of modest scale to prove bankability.
What is the opportunity in 2015 to build the market for energy storage in line with the accelerating duck curve?
Utility contracts from the current round of energy storage procurement can provide the market pull for long-duration energy storage technology.
With the energy storage procurement cycle in progress, let open the long-duration energy storage market in 2015.
As solar energy production drops off, CAISO forecasts a 14,000-megawatt resource ramp in 2020 on that date.
The four-to seven-hour ramp period during the afternoon and evening is well within the scale of long-duration energy storage.
However, CAISO did experience multiple days with negative real-time energy pricing during 2014 demonstrating the limitations to system economics given today substantial supply of inflexible generation participating in the energy market.
Since Christmas week 2013, the system operator has been helpfully posting actual net load. You can find the daily duck as the last chart here,
The year for energy storage procurement in CAISO CAISO is performing the role for which it was created:
2015 is the year to open the market for long-duration energy storage. To avoid the perverse outcome of curtailment of zero-marginal-cost, greenhouse gas-free renewable resources,
we need to absorb gigawatt-hours'worth of midday solar energy for reuse later in the day or the week.
we have the abundant solar and wind resources, the innovative companies, and the open energy storage procurement proceeding that can, at a modest scale, kick-start the long-duration energy storage market.
My request to the utilities: scour the bidder landscape, pick a variety of technologies, teach the companies the ins and outs of your contracting processes,
Light technology is now an active area of research in energy, health and agriculture. First lighting the way In the late 1800s
Thomas Edison created a practical light bulb, an electrically-powered, long-lasting light source that significantly changed our work, play
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
In recognition of this energy saving invention, they received the Nobel prize in Physics last year. Light was recognized also in the Nobel prize category of Chemistry last year for light-based microscopy tools that use a few tricks to sense the presence of a single molecule.
in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.
because its engines are powered battery. NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
The current 3. 5-inch lab prototype, for example, has a force threshold level of 200 newtons--capable of absorbing the energy of a 100 mph fastball in 0. 03 seconds.
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The corticosteroid DEX, a powerful ameliorator of inflammation, was released from the polymer by external application of an Electromagnetic field for 2 hours/day for a week.
The nanowires respond to an electromagnetic field generated by a separate device, which can be used to control the release of a preloaded drug.
a conductive polymer material that responds to electromagnetic fields. Wen Gao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Paralysis Research who worked on the project with Borgens
when the correct electromagnetic field is applied, the nanowires release small amounts of the payload. This process can be started
by using the corresponding electromagnetic field stimulating device, Borgens said. The researchers captured and transported a patch of the nanowire carpet on water droplets that were used used to deliver it to the site of injury.
The magnitude and wave form of the electromagnetic field must be tuned to obtain the optimum release of the drug,
The electromagnetic field is likely affecting the interaction between the nanomaterial and the drug molecules, Borgens said."
Once the electromagnetic field is removed, the polymer snaps back to the initial architecture and retains the remaining drug molecules."
"For each different drug the team would need to find the corresponding optimal electromagnetic field for its release,
Functional Drug Delivery Using Electromagnetic field-Responsive Polypyrrole Nanowires, "was published in the journal Langmuir. Other team members involved in the research include John Cirillo,
who designed and constructed the electromagnetic field stimulating system; Youngnam Cho, a former faculty member at Purdue's Center for Paralysis Research;
and an electromagnetic field was applied for two hours a day for one week. By the end of the week the treated mice had a weaker GFAP signal than the control groups,
but were exposed not to the electromagnetic field. In some cases, treated mice had no detectable GFAP signal.
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In graphene, infrared light launches ripples through the electrons at the surface of this metallike material called surface plasmon polaritons that the researchers were able to control using a simple electrical circuit.
It fits the definition of a metamaterial, a class of structures first realized at UC San diego 15 years ago that is beginning to be expoited for potential practical use."
which endow them with several advantages compared to traditional metal-based metamaterials. The key advantages include enormous degree of tunability, relatively low losses,
"We have demonstrated now an entirely new class of electromagnetic metamaterials that are fabricated from separate atomic planes of Van der waals materials,
"Electromagnetic metamaterials are revolutionizing imaging and sensor technologies. Since the initial demonstration these systems have advanced already to practical applications."#
The U s. Deparment of Energy, Air force Office of Scientific research and the Moore Foundation funded the work.
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